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security – Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list] Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 03:56:11 +0900 From: Hyunwoo Kim To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com Cc: imv4bel@...il.com Subject: Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE Hi, This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to the previous Copy Fail. Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for these vulnerabilities. After consultation with the linux-distros@...openwall.org maintainers, and at the maintainers' request, I…
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Elon Musk’s lawsuit puts OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope

Elon Musk’s lawsuit puts OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope

🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Elon Musk,OpenAI,openai lawsuit,sam altman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk's legal effort to break up OpenAI may hinge on how his for-profit subsidiary advances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. A federal court in Oakland on Thursday heard a former employee and board member say the company's efforts to push AI products to market threaten its commitment to AI safety. Rosie Campbell joined the company's AGI Readiness team in 2021, and left OpenAI in 2024 after her team disbanded. Another…
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AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The standards of common decency and taste, that’s who. Let’s take a step back. Sharing content online is wonderful. It’s pretty much what made the internet what it is today. The knack is to understand what you’re sharing, to whom, and why. If you were born before around 1980 you’ll know that there was the Geocities era. Every high-school nerd had a homepage (mine was in Vienna since you’re asking). Just because I built a homepage on Geocities, complete with 'Under Construction' anigifs, a web…
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Tommy, another book-tracking competitor on Goodreads, has shut down

💥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,booktok,reading,tome 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tome, a book tracking app and book lover community, is closing its doors. Built on the back of BookTok's large, influential community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offers readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add images of things like favorite quotes or memes, or share playlists that match a book's sentiment. The app is now one of many catering to a growing demographic of Gen Z readers who create book-related content…
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I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too

I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: My last blog post complaining about Apple's Liquid Glass somehow hit the front page on Hacker News, and even the actual news media in some countries. All this made me realize Liquid Glass and Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated, yet their hardware is universally loved. So credit where it's due, they make great hardware.After my last blog post I received tons and tons of emails from people mentioning that they switched to X or Y because of Liquid Glass, and much like them,…
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Google unveils a screenless Fitbit Air device that looks like Whoop

Google unveils a screenless Fitbit Air device that looks like Whoop

🔥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Gadgets,Hardware,fitbit,Google,wearables 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google on Thursday unveiled the new Fitbit Air, a wearable device without a screen that retails for $100. The device includes health and fitness tracking features such as 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rhythm monitoring with atrial fibrillation alerts, blood oxygen level, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more. The tech giant said in a blog post that the device is aimed at people who find wearable devices too bulky, complex or expensive, noting that the Fitbit Air is "simple,…
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agents need control flow, not more prompts

agents need control flow, not more prompts

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: agents need control flow, not more prompts | brian’s thoughts Home Blog 07 May, 2026 Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve ever resorted to MANDATORY or DO NOT SKIP, you’ve hit the ceiling of prompting. Imagine a programming language where statements are suggestions and functions return “Success” while hallucinating. Reasoning becomes impossible; reliability collapses as complexity grows. Software scales through recursive composability: systems built from libraries, modules, and functions. It’s code…
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How Anthropic’s Mythos rewrote Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity

How Anthropic’s Mythos rewrote Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity

💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Security,Anthropic,cybersecurity,Firefox,Mozilla,Mythos 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When Anthropic unveiled the new Mythos model in April, it also issued a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it discovered thousands of high-risk bugs that needed to be fixed before they could be made public. Now, security researchers at Mozilla's Firefox browser offer a closer look at what this process looks like in practice, and what Mythos powers mean for software security more generally. In a post published on Thursday,…
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Motherboard sales ‘collapse’ by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

Motherboard sales ‘collapse’ by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI, causing prices for many major PC components to rise across the board during the past six months, with memory modules and storage drives leading the way. Now those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers, like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, reducing production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. The AI infrastructure buildout is also causing shortages for Intel and AMD CPUs (and even high-end Macs), especially as interest in agentic AI…
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Google’s AI-based health coach will launch at $9.99 per month on May 19

Google’s AI-based health coach will launch at $9.99 per month on May 19

🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Hardware,ai health coach,fitbit,google health,google health coach,wearables 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Besides taking the wraps off its new Fitbit Air, a Whoop-esque fitness band, Google also said Thursday that it is rebranding its Fitbit app as Google Health and launching an artificial intelligence-powered health coach as a subscription service. The Health app will become a key part of Google's fitness strategy, building on its 2021 acquisition of Fitbit, which saw the tech giant delve into fitness wearables to complement its general-purpose Android smartwatches. Leveraging Google's Gemini AI, the new Google…
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